Displaying 361 To 390 Of 728 Comments 2009 Plugin Competition Winner Reviewed – Section Widget @Matt – Yeah, I brought that up in the review. On the flipside, Kaspars Tabbed widgets enables you to do the same thing although I haven’t had success with the animation part of it on some themes. It allows you to use widgets such as recent comments, recent blog posts, etc making it that much more useful. » Posted By Jeffro On October 6, 2009 @ 12:37 PM Paid Membership Being Applied To The Forum I’ve decided to hold off on paid memberships. There are other things I can try and it wouldn’t be worth it for the very few that would pay. » Posted By Jeffro On October 6, 2009 @ 8:21 AM @Andreas Nurbo – He sure did although I think more of his decision had to do with market pressure than complying with the license. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:39 AM @Oliver Schlöbe – LOL that’s a mean question to ask. I’ve only had two dedicated co-hosts with everyone else being a guest co-host. » Posted By Jeffro On October 6, 2009 @ 12:34 PM Thanks for all the comments guys. I’ve been thinking about a new way of doing the show, one that doesn’t depend on any particular co-host. I have the plans laid out, just have to nail some things down. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:35 AM @designodyssey – I know shortly after appearing on WordPress Weekly, Andy began working on a post that would explain in clearer details the theme framework. Haven’t seen the post yet so he must still be working on it or forgot about it. A unified look and feel that can be easily accomplished between all the projects would be a blessing for many people I’d imagine. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:47 AM Roll Your Own Lifestream With WordPress @Chip Bennett – No, it’s not lifestreaming per se. My idea of lifestreaming is literally that. Taking all aspects of your life or most of your online life and streaming it all in one place. I think what his article actually does is provide a way to create more of a Tumblr like atmosphere on top of WordPress. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:42 AM Guide To Installing WordPress Locally With WampServer @Ryan – Don’t think I’ve ever seen a comparison between the two but as Martin said, it’s probably just a personal preference thing. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:50 AM @Bill Robbins – I can understand how you and others could read into the post as me being or feeling elitist but I assure you, that is not the case. I simply gave this scenario some thought and decided to publish those thoughts to see what other people thought. Thanks to the great feedback from those who have commented, it’s easy to see why this scenario will never happen. The last thing I want is a group of elitist in WordPress. Those people do the project and community no good. » Posted By Jeffro On October 28, 2009 @ 1:02 AM @Ben Cook – Well damn. You got me LOL » Posted By Jeffro On October 22, 2009 @ 3:14 PM @Ben Cook – I don’t know who the board members are but my hope is that it wouldn’t be anyone employed by Automattic to keep the separation their. However, I guess Matt would most likely be a board member or founder of the foundation where in the points of separation would disappear again. Matt’s job is to provide as large of a return for his investors as possible. If he can do something on WordPress.org that improves Automattic’s revenue he SHOULD do so or he’s doing his investors a dis-service. If that is the case and this indeed has happened before or continues to happen, then I have a problem with it. As I see it, the investors have put their money into Automattic the company which operates paid services such as TalkPress and WordPress.com. The investors should not have any say or give a damn about WordPress.org. WordPress.org should not be their concern because WordPress.org is not meant to be a money making machine, WordPress.com is. I will agree that no matter what Matt says, him being the founder of Automattic and him being the founder of a non profit entity in WordPress.org presents an inherit conflict of interest. The only way to solve that would be to choose one over the other and not do both. I don’t see that happening so the next best thing is to hope that Matt doesn’t grow devil horns and turn evil on us. » Posted By Jeffro On October 22, 2009 @ 3:02 PM @Ben Cook – Matt has been working on establishing WordPress as a Non Profit organization since the projects beginnings in 2003. A reliable source of information told me that recently, the paperwork was finally being completed or had been completed to place WordPress.org into a Non Profit ORG status and furthermore, there would be a board of members or trustees that would provide oversite of the project. This is a decision Matt has made himself to go non profit, not any of the dev team. I suppose if you wanted to get conspiracy theorists about it, you could make a case for three of the core committers being employed by Automattic but considering I asked Matt in a previous interview the question “Has there ever been a decision made for WordPress.org solely for the financial benefit of WordPress.com” He responded with No. I’m willing to take his word for it. » Posted By Jeffro On October 22, 2009 @ 2:04 PM @Paul – You are right which is why I choose my words carefully as to not alienate a group of users or call the noobs morons which is a wrong thing to do considering I was at that point myself. We all were. Throw the upgrade stuff out the window. The crux of the matter is in this: Lets not kick the slowest kids out to the special class, lets find a way to help them without slowing the rest of the class down. @Ron – That’s my hope. If the knowledge fountains disappear, where are the novices to drink? @Angelique – So are you saying that WordPress helped you get a foot in the door but because of it’s ease of use, you were able to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes over time? » Posted By Jeffro On October 20, 2009 @ 7:37 PM Is A Plugin Validation Team A Pipe Dream? This was not discussed in depth during the development meeting however, there is a central place where we should be having the discussion located here. http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/use-this-thread-to-brainstorm-ways-to-ma/ The more I think about it, the more I’m in line with the idea that a dedicated team is probably not the way to go but a hybrid of code sniffers and guidelines. Build in some crowd sourcing tools and such. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:52 AM @Ron – I didn’t mention it but that is probably the largest deterrent for this idea. However, why does phpBB3 have a group of people dedicated to performing these roles for free on their time. I think WordPress could do the same. Don’t know who would want to do it though. @Nitin Reddy Katkam – I wouldn’t want that to happen and if handled correctly, it wouldn’t happen. But I see where you’re coming from. @Andrea_R – The only reason it is not urgent right now is because none of the worst case scenario has happened yet. I think for it to work and to get a team together, money would have to be involved but I’m not sure Automattic and its investors would like to put money down that hole. Approved plugin frameworks is something I haven’t heard of. But I think that is a large part of the problem. Crappy coded plugins in the repository which work but don’t work in the way that they should and then others coming along using those as examples to build on. This is a bad domino effect where at some point, those dominoes will fall. » Posted By Jeffro On September 30, 2009 @ 3:27 PM WPWeekly Episode 74 – SimplePie Disappears – Leaves Crumbs Behind Yep, all three of you got the right answer. That’s the function tag I was looking for. Back in those days, I used the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin but thankfully, the exporting of tags from that plugin into the WordPress system was seamless. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:37 AM Plugin Competition Winner Announced @John Myrstad – I need to download it at least once to review the plugin :) » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:54 AM @Viper007Bond – I thought with this conversation, I’d bring out the more human side of the equation. Generally all we get to see and read is the code/development aspects. Usually, there are behind the scenes forces at work dictating decisions and developments we don’t know about. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 10:57 AM Custom Install Profiles Sounds Like A Cool Idea still on the fence on making it commercial or GPL, but I’m leaning towards the latter No reason why you can’t do both. The GPL encourages the commercialization of code, it does not restrict placing a price tag on it. » Posted By Jeffro On September 20, 2010 @ 7:05 AM @donnacha | WordSkill – I think that if install profiles or this new way of making it quick and painless to install WordPress were to ever be a candidate, having it be available for all would be the way to go. » Posted By Jeffro On October 5, 2009 @ 11:04 AM @DD32 – Yeah, that sure is a problem. Who’s to say the plugins you choose are the ones I want part of my install profile? I wonder if I could just paste direct links to plugins I want to have installed to WordPressQI and it would download and unpack them as part of the install process. Perhaps that would be the open ended answer to the problem? @donnacha | WordSkill – Quite a few good points I agree with in terms of how install profiles should operate. It sounds to me like this idea has the potential to be built as a service which I think DD32 could easily turn WP QI into if he really wanted to with install profiles being part of a paid add-on or feature. » Posted By Jeffro On September 28, 2009 @ 11:40 PM WordPress RSS Parser SimplePie Ceases Development @Ryan McCue – I saw your name mentioned in the post and thought hey! I recognize that name! Will you be bringing this information up during the WordPress dev chat? » Posted By Jeffro On September 28, 2009 @ 11:41 PM Thank you all for the warm wishes, I really appreciate it. 10 hour drive, here I come! » Posted By Jeffro On September 20, 2009 @ 5:12 AM Great stories guys, they still have chuckling. I’ve since organized the poll and it’s now available for folks to vote on who they think has the craziest upgrade story amongst the four presented here in the comments. Thanks for playing and good luck. http://www.wptavern.com/who-has-the-craziest-wordpress-upgrading-story » Posted By Jeffro On September 28, 2009 @ 3:34 PM WPWeekly Episode 72 – End User Responsibility And WordPress Security @Conorp – Nope. I’ll be gone next week so I tried to keep things light for David as he is hosting the show by himself next week. » Posted By Jeffro On September 18, 2009 @ 9:45 AM CodePoet.com – New Home For WordPress Consultants @Leland – Maybe Toni can stop by and address some of the other questions but I don’t see why the Consultants page on Automattic.com would continue to exist after the full launch of CodePoet. Instead, I would expect the consultants page to have a description on how to find a consultant and then a link to CodePoet. @_ck_ – I don’t think it’s a restriction just categorization. I don’t know why it’s limited to WordPress. Perhaps it will be updated in the future or more fields will be added to the site wide profiles so consultants can specify which projects they have experience with. @Toni – Thanks for stopping by Toni. » Posted By Jeffro On September 17, 2009 @ 1:59 PM @donnacha | WordSkill – No one has asked me yet why I push GForms so heavily yet, I don’t use it on WPTavern. The reason for that is, Contact Form 7 fulfills my needs of having an easy form to contact me. I don’t have a need for generating more forms. But if I did, I’d snatch up a single user license in a heart beat. » Posted By Jeffro On September 17, 2009 @ 5:20 PM @donnacha | WordSkill – During the beta testing period, I didn’t have to re-enter the key each time I upgraded but I don’t know if that has changed since the official launch. » Posted By Jeffro On September 17, 2009 @ 5:07 PM Who’s Responsible For Keeping Your WordPress Site Up To Date? @mwaterous – I’ll take it one step further and say that it will be one of those things you have to disable through editing wp-config.php like post-revisions. » Posted By Jeffro On September 17, 2009 @ 3:36 PM @Dgold – This is an impossibility. Even if WordPress itself were secure and locked up, what’s to stop a MySQL vulnerability or one within PHP itself to allow your site to be compromised? You would need to lock down the server including all of the associated technologies WordPress uses for that to happen which in my opinion is too counter-productive. @mwaterous – I think there are improvements to be made, but is the WordPress team going to do things in such a way that they throw everything they’ve got at the site administrator to get them to upgrade without introducing automation? The point, you could tell someone how to do something 500 times and they still don’t get it. I think there are a large group of WordPress users that fall into this camp. » Posted By Jeffro On September 17, 2009 @ 1:55 PMComments Posted By Jeffro
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